Some people noticed that I haven’t posted anything for some time on Facebook. And that is correct, I basically stopped using Facebook. Main reason for this that Facebook becomes more and more a privacy thread. If not by Facebook self, then it is by people with bad intentions.
For the second time now in the circle of people that I know someone is a victim of identity theft.
The first time it was more or less innocent (if identity theft can be innocent at all).
Now the second time it is not so harmless and most likely it will have financial consequences for the person involved.
Apart from that, Facebook is storing more and more private information of people. It is really becoming an privacy threat. And if the security of Facebook was optimal, but sadly it is not. And making an account secure is so difficult that it is hard to do for people who are not computer-minded (and not secure accounts can become a threat for those that do have things secured properly).
So I cleared out my friend list on Facebook for the most of it. If you still on it, you are lucky. It means I have regularly face to face contact with you or you are important to me for some other reason.
For the rest deleted and changed the settings for those who can send me friend request.
The people that are still on my friend list are there because I think it is important for them to be able to reach me. That is all to it.
You are not on my friend list any more? Sorry, but I care for my privacy.
So friend requests will not reach me. Same can be said for private messages from people that are not on my friend list.
I know this all sounds very harsh. But I want to stay in control of my privacy.
Here on my weblog I have full control over what happens and can I act directly when a threat appears, even when that means taken temporary my weblog down.
And right you are Rob. I was really shocked by happened. Never thought something like that would happen this close to me. Now I know that identity theft is something that really happens a lot.
I was never a big time Facebook user, but I am happy I was warned. Jennifer and we can do easily without Facebook.
And here in your weblog it is much more fun anyway (with all the “extra’s” 🙂 )
Fully understandable, Rob.
We had also the idea from “This will never happen to us”, but now it happened very close to us.
But as Mir already said, your weblog here and that other server for us, that us lot more fun.
And if I want to read the news I can go directly to the website. Solve right away the rude behaviour you often see on FB discussions
I never was a big fan of Facebook. Seems my consideration about it were correct.
And for people who really need to get in contact with you, there are so many other ways to do that.